Colonel N. Grumbach, the current treasurer of Onondaga County, was born on 30 January 1835 in Detroit, Michigan. His father, Nicholas Grumbach, was a native of Alsace who came to Syracuse in 1828. His still-living mother, Mrs. Elisabeth Grumbach, and her father, Christian Rupprecht, also from Alsace, came with other families to America in the year 1831. During their journey to Buffalo on the Erie Canal the boat froze and a small group decided to remain and live in Syracuse. In 1831 or 1832 Nicholas Grumbach married Miss Rupprecht and they subsequently moved to Detroit where Colonel Grumbach was born. Besides him, they had six other children, of whom, however, three died. Living still are Mrs. Brucker of Deerfield, [Michigan?], Colonel Nicholas Grumbach, George, and Johann P. Grumbach, all of Syracuse. Colonel Nicholas Grumbach received his education in the local public schools and was then employed in various ways. In 1854 he became a cigarmaker for the firm of Sperry & Hier and remained there until 1859 when he and Gustav Sniper started their own business under the name of Grumbach & Sniper. In 1862 he gave up the business to become Captain of Co. B, 149th N. Y. Volunteer Regiment and served there until the end of the war. Details of this part of his life and of his military career are in the historical section of this book. By 1856 he had joined the Syracuse Grays, and at the time of the outbreak of the war he was serving in his second term as Supervisor of the Second Ward and was Captain of the Monroe Cadets. After the war he returned to business and was involved in the production of glue. Later he was an underwriter and insurance agent and operated a restaurant[?Restauration]. In Albany he was three years in a State [exhibition? Austellung], later Administrator of the local government building, Tax Commissioner under Mayor Vann, and from 1 January 1894 to 1 January 1897 he was Court Crier. In the fall of 1896 he was elected by a large majority as County Treasurer. In addition he served two terms (1868-1869) as Alderman of the 4th Ward, was the first Quartermaster of the Lilly Post, G. A. R., and belongs to several various associations. He was married on 14 September 1862 to Miss Emilie Steiger of this city, has four children, and lives at 1210 Lodi Street.

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